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USN201-1 : courier vulnerabilities

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
courier vulnerabilities

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Summary :

These remote packages are missing security patches :
- courier-authdaemon
- courier-authmysql
- courier-authpostgresql
- courier-base
- courier-doc
- courier-faxmail
- courier-imap
- courier-imap-ssl
- courier-ldap
- courier-maildrop
- courier-mlm
- courier-mta
- courier-mta-ssl
- courier-pcp
- courier-pop
- courier-pop-ssl
- courier-ssl
- courier-webadmin
- sqwebmail

Description :

Several Cross Site Scripting vulnerabilities were discovered in
SqWebmail. A remote attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary
JavaScript or other active HTML embeddable content in the web browser
of an SqWebmail user by sending specially crafted emails to him.

Please note that the "sqwebmail" package is not officially supported
by Ubuntu (it is in the "universe" section of the archive).

Solution :

Upgrade to :
- courier-authdaemon-0.47-3ubuntu1.3 (Ubuntu 5.04)
- courier-authmysql-0.47-3ubuntu1.3 (Ubuntu 5.04)
- courier-authpostgresql-0.47-3ubuntu1.3 (Ubuntu 5.04)
- courier-base-0.47-3ubuntu1.3 (Ubuntu 5.04)
- courier-doc-0.47-3ubuntu1.3 (Ubuntu 5.04)
- courier-faxmail-0.47-3ubuntu1.3 (Ubuntu 5.04)
- courier-imap-3.0.8-3ubuntu1.3 (Ubuntu 5.04)
- courier-imap-ssl-3.0.8-3ubuntu1.3 (Ubuntu 5.04)
- courier-ldap-0.47-3ubuntu1.3 (Ubuntu 5.04)
- courier-maildrop-0.47-3ubuntu1.3 (Ubuntu 5.04)
- courier-mlm-
[...]

Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID:

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2005 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2005 Michel Arboi

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